Entries from January 2009
January 9th, 2009 · by John · 5 Comments
Our story begins at the Thinkspace Gallery in Los Angeles’ Silverlake District. There are thousands of galleries in SoCal, but CatGirl and I love this one because it showcases some of our favorite artists, “low-brow” creators often featured in the likes of Juxtapoz (which William Gibson apparently reads to cure writer’s block). When we visited [...]
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Tags: Art · Humanity · Jana · Media and Design · NYC · Personal · Photos · Pop Culture · Skeptic · Web 2.0
January 7th, 2009 · by xJane · 1 Comment
It’s 2009 and I’ve been seeing more discussions of women and work than usual. Perhaps it’s just that I unplugged from my feminist news sites in the last few months of ’08. As a woman who will eventually go back to work, and if it’s at a law firm, certainly hopes that she’ll at least [...]
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Tags: Career · Dialog · Feminism · Gender · Justice · Musings · News · Women
January 3rd, 2009 · by xJane · 3 Comments
But also anti-woman! A true uniter. See here for his creepy-ass discussion of why divorce is worse than your spouse abusing you (hint: because if you divorce, then God gets to abuse you! And whose abuse would you rather?) Ugh. via.
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Tags: Christianity · Current Events · Depression · Feminism · Gender · Getting over Religion · Humanity · Justice · Peace; conflict resolution. · Politics · Religion · Women
January 3rd, 2009 · by xJane · No Comments
I’m catching up on local news (read: blogs) while my cousin is in town (trying not to be too antisocial by spending all my free time blogging) and enjoyed particularly this most recent post at Daylight Atheism: No Holy Ground, a rational look at the conflict in the so-called “Holy Land” and how it is [...]
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Tags: Atheism · Belief · Christianity · Dialog · Doubt · Getting over Religion · Reason · Religion · Skeptic · Society